The jury: Pavel Shvedov - a jury chairman, a historian, a journalist, a tea expert. The author of articles about tea in various publications, the moderator of the Internet resource dedicated to tea. Sergey Andreev and Alexei Zhernoklyuev – key masters of the first wave of Moscow tea clubs. Vladimir Tsapelik – a wine and gastronomic critic and journalist, President and founder of the Independent Wine Club, a chief editor of the website  www.winepages.ru. PhD in Economics. Alexey Munipov – a chief editor of Playbill air. PhD in Art History. 19 tea masters took part in the qualifying round. Participants competed for the right to represent the Central Federal District at the National Championships, which will be held in September 2014. Two days of the qualifying round participants demonstrated their abilities and skills in all aspects of tea art. Panel of Judges had a hard time, because all the participants were well prepared and serious about winning. Ustinja Kosterkina (team representative of Tea height ) became the winner in the category “Tea Composition”, Evgeniy Yarchenko (independent member) - in the category Expertise brewing tea, in the category Expertise tea tasting were identified two winners - Sergey Vlasov and Evgeniy Roldugin from Tea card . Before announcing the results of the competition the head of organizing committee Viktor Enin thanked the participants for their training, contribution to the development of tea culture, courage necessary to participate in such a new and responsible form of tea activity and noted that the life of a professional tea community in Moscow and the country had begun new stage. The winners received gifts from companies Tea height. House of tea and ice cream , Tea card and Scandinavian design .